Auckland punished after a few phases and Henwood goes over after running through a few would be tacklers

Counties smash the Auckland scrum off their own ball.

No TMO needed as the Assistant Referee says there was a forward pass. Muirhead is shocked as Lee-Lo seems to have thrown a good pass

Taufua with a break and runs away from his support. Auckland manage to burgle the ball back by marching over the ruck

Auckland with a good scrum but Countie defend well and arrive in numbers to ruck over and kill the ball. Steelers scrum

Sub Whetton goes over after an attacking scrum by Auckland. They kept it tight and going the same way and Whetton went over in the 5th phase

Phenominal defence by Counties as the players pile in after the whistle and there is a dust up

Auckland drive over and go over the line. It is held up and they now have a 5m scrum.

Another serious injury for Auckland as Peter Sailis is stretchered off.

Pulu gets try number 5 for Pulu after he chased down a grubber kick. A number of players looked ahead of the kicker so some good fortune for the Steelers